When you were in middle or high school, did you ever have an extremely immature, shit-head of a classmate return one year from summer vacation unexpectedly mature and sophisticated? Well, that's Axe right now. That's right, Axe is back... Continue Reading →

Last Monday while getting ready for work, I turned on ESPN only to be greeted by this shock inducing report:
Wait, what? A Call To Men publicly advocating for Ray Rice to get a second chance in the NFL?... Continue Reading →

In what must be a record for televised depictions of non-vanilla sex acts in a single season, two of my favorite shows, Broad City and Louie, both explored pegging recently. Pegging, for those who don't know, is (rather inelegantly)... Continue Reading →

The past five-plusÂ years of male targeted advertising haveÂ been pretty painful to watch. Yes, I know thatÂ ads are always painful to watch, but they've been particularly excruciating for a while now. You can blame this on the glut ofÂ advertisers trying... Continue Reading →

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I have a very important question to ask this week; If the characters in AMC's The Walking Dead were real, who would you rather have as a survival buddy during a zombie apocalypse; Tyreese Williams or Abraham Ford? In case you forgot who these characters are, Tyreese is a big black dude who travels with his sister (Sasha) and of late has…
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The past five-plus years of male targeted advertising have been pretty painful to watch. Yes, I know that ads are always painful to watch, but they've been particularly excruciating for a while now. You can blame this on the glut of advertisers trying just about every tactic imaginable to convince us that modern men have some sort of masculinity deficit disorder…
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It happened again. Another boy, Jaylen Fryberg, walked into his high school and started shooting. This time around, two students (at the time of this writing), both female, were killed and three more were injured, including two of Fryberg's male cousins. As of this writing, every news report says that the motive for the massacre is still…
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"One of the most radical things you can do is to actually believe women when they talk about their experiences." -Anita Sarkeesian A few days ago I was giving a talk on masculinity, media and violence. When I got to the video games portion of my talk, which of course included mentions of "GamerGate," Zoe…
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*Trigger warning: graphic threats and descriptions of violent acts* A man in New York slashes the throat of a woman who refused to talk to him. A man in Detroit shoots and kills a woman (and injures 5 others who were with her) after she rejects his advances. A man in Pakistan boards a bus…
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If you’ve ever questioned the messages and images thrown at you while consuming various forms of media, you’re in the right place. Here at How Manly, we dissect mass media visions of masculinity, placing them under the microscope in search of deeper understanding and the answers to questions like; Is this what it means to be a man? Really? You sure about that?